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Friday, October 19, 2012

October 20th

Karl Fabel composed in all genres with a marked preference for miniatures and for problems with retroanalytical contents. In 1936 he wrote the book "Kleinkunst" together with Massmann and Palatz and afterwards numerous other books, such as "Rund um das Schachbrett", the last book being "Introduction to Retrograde Analysis" (1974).
In 2014 Friedrich Friedel gave examples of problems quoted by Karl Fabel in "Kurioses Schach" on ChessBase.

Fritz Hoffmann composed twomoves, helpmates and endgames and was an International Judge. He specialised in symbol problems such as letter problems. He has written several books about chess composition: "Schachkonturen" (1992) or "Tausend Jahre Schachprobleme Band 4" reviewed by Günter Büsing in die Schwalbe April 2000, quoted on berlinthema.de.

Bernd Gräfrath is a philosopher specialized in Philosophy and Ethics of Technology.
He is also a chess composer interested in helpmates, fairy and especially fairy retro problems (fairy proof games) and an International Judge.
More information about him on Wikipedia.

Gräfrath, Bernd
Mat Plus (25/640) 2007
Special Prize

hs#4

Duplex

5 + 3

Duplex: The stipulation must also be achieved interchanging the functions of White and Black.